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DlASffOBIk- 



M'-rl'.u u-- plants, with fascicled or fibrosa roots. I. 



nelled with pantile] rains, [nfloreso nee oft n mon or li -- I 



i, in umbels, racemes, or long compact -| 

 corolla forming an inferior, 6-parted, more 







or less glumaceous or cartilaginous, peri- 

 anth. Stain, us 6, inserted into the base 

 of tin segments ; sometimee ."■, and then 

 opposite the calyx. Anthers 2-celled, 

 turned inwards, opening longitudinally, <n- 

 by pt>rr- at the points. Ovary l-or.'i- 

 celled, 1- or many-seeded, or I -celled and 

 igmas gi nerally 3, 

 sometimes only 1 ; ovules anatropal. Pruii 

 capsular, with .". valves, which have the 

 dissepiment in their middle, sometimes 

 destitute of valves, and I -seeded b) abortion. Seeds with 

 skin ; albumen firm, fleshy, or cartilaginous ; embryo very minute, 

 included, near the bilum. 



This i >nl. r. in in most genuine Btate, may 1»- said to stand l - 

 l» talnidi-ous mid ^luinaccous Endogens, agreeing with the former in 

 the flonl leaves having assumed the verticillate state nee 



tftub a perianth, and with the latter in their texture. Bui while 

 aglnmaceous confused calyx and corolla are the characterisl 



part of the Order, another part, approaching Lilyworts, assumes 



apetaloid state; bo that little is finally left to separate [lushes 

 from the latter, except t\v « 1 i 1 1"- niiee in the tinhryo, which is • \- 

 tremelj small in Rushes, and large and axile in Lilies. It is in fact 

 by this last oharact r, more than by any other, that the < >rder seems 

 to be distinguished ; for otherwise, Narthecium would go to Lilies, 

 and all the Aphyllanthous Lilies would come to Rush s. The genera 

 are in greal need of careful revision ; of several the embryo is un- 

 known, and it may be found hereafter necessary to m rider- 

 able alteration among them : but till the whole history of tb 

 gem ra shall have been cl( ared up, it is at least premature to ■• 

 more Orders for their reception. 1 do not discover a single f< a tun- in 

 Xerotes which can .li\ ide it from Rushes proper, and a- to Flagella- 

 ria, equally made the nsurperofa throne that cannot be maintained, 

 it seems a mere runaway from the Spiderworts, differing \«ty little 

 from Aneilema. Some of the species of this Order ai 

 unlike European Rushea The Prionium Palmita ol 

 Good Hope, has the look of an Aloe, or of the crown of a 

 mounted upon a thick black Bpongy Btem. Kingia has an ai I 

 Btem termmated by a tuft of teavi a Calectasiaa are bra 

 with dry, permanent, Btarry Bowers, of a bright violet, an I 

 opening by pores, like a Solanum. According to Brov. 

 I U, 2. 494.), the genera Kingia, Dasypog , ( 



\ rotes, and Baxteria, form a peculiar tril f this Order; 



character is assigned to such tribe. I caiin.it, ; . include 



Dasypogon. Brown remarks, that Rushes 



tween Restiacese and Asphodelese, dififering from the form, r in 



ingan included embryo, a radicle usually centripetal, an 1 th< 



when there are only 3, opposite the sepals. Agardh comhim - R 



oesa and Rushes, i 157. From Palms the} 



independently of their habit, by the texture of th< 



constant tendency to produce more than 1 ovu 



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 1 da i 5. a seed germinating 



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